Montaud, Hérault

Montaud

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Montaud

Coordinates: 43°45′07″N 3°57′23″E / 43.7519°N 3.9564°E / 43.7519; 3.9564Coordinates: 43°45′07″N 3°57′23″E / 43.7519°N 3.9564°E / 43.7519; 3.9564
Country France
Region Languedoc-Roussillon-Midi-Pyrénées
Department Hérault
Arrondissement Montpellier
Canton Castries
Intercommunality Montpellier
Government
  Mayor (20082014) Pierre Combettes
Area1 12.92 km2 (4.99 sq mi)
Population (2008)2 857
  Density 66/km2 (170/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code 34164 / 34160
Elevation 51–210 m (167–689 ft)
(avg. 110 m or 360 ft)

1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Montaud is a commune in the Hérault department in the Languedoc-Roussillon region in southern France.

Montaud is a mountain village with a dozen hamlets. It contains a school, a city hall, a church, and a few farms. Most inhabitants of Montaud work in nearby Montpellier, many as researchers, teachers, engineers and technicians.

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History

French Cardinal, Bertrand Pierre (Cardinal de Colombier), who was used by the popes at Avignon for agent in wartime missions during the Hundred Years War and in the election of Charles of Bohemia to the imperial throne, died in Montaud in 1361.[1]

Montaud is located in the north of the Vercors, an important site of the French Resistance during World War II.

Children from the primary school of Montaud participated in a "spacetalk" via ARISS radio contact with astronaut Mike Finckle, aboard the International Space Station in 2004.[2]

Population

Historical population
YearPop.±%
1793201    
1821284+41.3%
1841280−1.4%
1856279−0.4%
1872283+1.4%
1886202−28.6%
1901249+23.3%
1921263+5.6%
1936284+8.0%
1962288+1.4%
1975298+3.5%
1982413+38.6%
1990545+32.0%
1999617+13.2%
2008857+38.9%

See also

References

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